I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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